Originally Posted by
langleybaston
What I want to know.
How does anybody know how to speak Latin?
We had [I had briefly] two masters who pronounced the weird words differently.
And some Met. folk say strartus and some straytus.
Hard to say, it has been spoken continuously since Roman times but whether one of Jule's finest would recognise it, who can say? Then again, we know that the pronunciation and structure of English has changed over the centuries - ever heard Shakespeare as he would have heard it?